(CNN) - When President Barack Obama visits Israel next month, he’ll be awarded the Presidential Medal of Distinction, Israeli President Shimon Peres’ office announced Monday.

Obama, the first sitting U.S. president to receive the recognition, will be awarded the medal for making “a unique and significant contribution to strengthening the State of Israel and the security of its citizens,” according to a release announcing the news.

Watch the white nationalist portion of the right start to exert even more influence by turning people’s ODS into being against Israel because they gave Obama this medal. Remember anyone who likes Obama is automatically not to be trusted.

I don’t see how they can do anything but pretend that it didn’t happen. It doesn’t fit the narrative at all, and Fox is already struggling with keeping their audience delusional in the face of the Romney defeat.

In 24 hours SCOTUS is going to deliver a smackdown to Orly Taitz. Wingnut splodey head EVERYWHERE!

For grins I went over to Oily Taint’s blog and there were over 100 comments about tomorrow’s case. It actually frightens me that those 100 comments come from “people” that could be our neighbors. The cumulative Derpness was embarrassing.

I don’t see how they can do anything but pretend that it didn’t happen. It doesn’t fit the narrative at all, and Fox is already struggling with keeping their audience delusional in the face of the Romney defeat.

I don’t see how they can do anything but pretend that it didn’t happen. It doesn’t fit the narrative at all, and Fox is already struggling with keeping their audience delusional in the face of the Romney defeat.

“It’s going to be like 2010, but this time around we need to shake up the GOP machine that tries to orchestrate away too much of the will of constitutional conservatives who don’t give a hoot how they do it in D.C.,” Palin said.

I met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was again reminded of this historically centered world leader, who is the Churchill of our day, as he clearly understands the dangers of a nuclear Iran and a volatile Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon. From the policies he advances and the weak selections he makes for positions such as Secretary of Defense in the form of Chuck Hagel, it would be fair to say that President Obama might turn out to be Neville Chamberlain.”

Rubin is apparently dying of cancer. So we may get less articles from him.

In the thread (not on PJ) I read that in, I couldn’t make myself care or refrain from criticizing. He’s a pretty horrible hack. And the pro-Israeli hysteria and manipulative attempts to slander Obama don’t do anyone any good.

So who is Clement Attlee, the fellow the Brits replaced Churchill with before the war had ended? And does Huck know that Chamberlain’s hesitancy to go to war with Germany had to do with his own military advisers saying that Britain was ill-equipped to go to war?

None of the usual suspects seem to be squawking. Probably trying to think up an anti-Obama angle that avoids being anti-Israel at the same time.

I call this the Pre-Talking Point Pause. It’s what happens before the right wing faithful are issued their approved opinions. As soon as the authorities decide how to handle it, the entire wingnut army will fall into unison lockstep.

I call this the Pre-Talking Point Pause. It’s what happens before the right wing faithful are issued their approved opinions. As soon as the authorities decide how handle it, the entire wingnut army will fall into unison lockstep.

I at least figured they’d have something by now, since Limbaugh’s already done his show for the day and his bloviations are usually the dirt speck upon which the wingnuts try to fashion a pearl.

I’ve always loved the scene in that video with Jon Bon Jovi standing on a cliff, pretending to play a guitar and moving his hands all over the neck while the guitar in the actual music track is just playing one chord over and over.

This goes back to something else that has been simmering on the RWNJ and fringe right sites in both the US and Israel. They’re busy claiming that the President and Sec. State Kerry are both about to seriously change the relationship between Israel and the US by withholding funds.

That, of course, is sheer nonsense but there’s a kernel of information in that derpitude.

The information I’m referring to is that the sequester calls for across the board cuts to all programs, regardless of importance or significance to domestic and foreign policy.

The sequester was passed by Congress and signed into law by the President because Congress and the President couldn’t come to an agreement on a spending/cut/tax hike plan that could begin to reduce the deficit and basically be pain free (because no politician wants to admit the reality that there are costs to keep things the way they are - either hikes in taxes or cuts in services). Well, the sequester would affect the foreign policy budget just as surely as any other part of the federal budget affected by the sequester.

It’s not some secret plan. It’s been known from the moment it was proposed that it would hit foreign policy appropriations, including those to Israel.

The President isn’t targeting Israel for these cuts, nor is he changing the relationship between Israel and the US. It’s the sequester in action, should it take effect in March after Congress again fails to come up with an alternative plan.

That’s what this is about - and the wingnuts are in full flail mode trying to attack the president for cutting aid to Israel.

The foreign policy aid cuts would result in a 10% cut across the board as per the sequester legislation. Aid to Egypt, Israel, Pakistan, and anywhere else that the US is sending foreign aid would be cut 10% if there’s no action to change the sequester.

And to change the sequester means that Congress has to pass the legislation for the president to sign. It isn’t happening out of the ether.

As much as the wingnuts want to blame Obama for some kind of policy change vis-a-vis Israel, that simply isn’t true.

I’ve always loved the scene in that video with Jon Bon Jovi standing on a cliff, pretending to play a guitar and moving his hands all over the neck while the guitar in the actual music track is just playing one chord over and over.

Dr. Lindzen is “feeding upon an audience that wants to hear a certain message, and wants to hear it put forth by people with enough scientific reputation that it can be sustained for a while, even if it’s wrong science,” said Christopher S. Bretherton, an atmospheric researcher at the University of Washington. “I don’t think it’s intellectually honest at all.”

I just hope we can reach to your levels one day. The casual use of bold, the all-caps drop, the blithe dismissal of the entire field of psychology as witch doctors; it’s a tour de force, and I’m not sure anyone is going to equal it any time soon.

We all suck and he’s smarter than us. It causes him a lot of acute pain, but unfortunately after he ran over a badger, he was haunted by its ghost and he has to post on websites as a kind of penance. I’m not sure what happens in Season 2.

You don’t seem to understand that people don’t consider YOU to be worth arguing with. You put your emotional problems in your user name and posts, and it’s insane to expect a positive response to what you are.

I just hope we can reach to your levels one day. The casual use of bold, the all-caps drop, the blithe dismissal of the entire field of psychology as witch doctors; it’s a tour de force, and I’m not sure anyone is going to equal it any time soon.

Here’s a pretty important fact that virtually everyone in Washington seems oblivious to: The federal deficit has never fallen as fast as it’s falling now without a coincident recession.

To be specific, CBO expects the deficit to shrink from 8.7% of GDP in fiscal 2011 to 5.3% in fiscal 2013 if the sequester takes effect and to 5.5% if it doesn’t. Either way, the two-year deficit reduction — equal to 3.4% of the economy if automatic budget cuts are triggered and 3.2% if not — would stand far above any other fiscal tightening since World War II.

Until the aftermath of the Great Recession, there were only three such periods in which the deficit shrank by a cumulative 2% of GDP or more. The 1960-61 and 1969-70 episodes both helped bring about a recession.

Far steeper deficit cuts during the demobilization from World War II and in 1937-38 both precipitated economic reversals.

Now the deficit is shrinking about 50% faster than it did during the booming late 1990s, when the jobless rate was falling south of 5% and tax revenues were soaring — without tax hikes.

This is a chart you will never see in the “liberal” media. A chart published in the most conservative rag in the nation basically, calling all the right wing deficit doom and gloom bullshit. David Gregory, where are you?

This is a chart you will never see in the “liberal” media. A chart published in the most conservative rag in the nation basically, calling all the right wing deficit doom and gloom bullshit. David Gregory, where are you?

And yet, they’re convinced that the problem is that we haven’t cut enough. That we have to virtually dismantle Medicare and Social Security in order to save America.

We all suck and he’s smarter than us. It causes him a lot of acute pain, but unfortunately after he ran over a badger, he was haunted by its ghost and he has to post on websites as a kind of penance. I’m not sure what happens in Season 2.

I’ve got it!

‘stabby’ is really ‘annefrance’, playing 3-D chess in a 2-D world, with an IQ of 167.

Former shelter dogs Max, Alexa, Hopper and Mtani are playing very important roles to save endangered cheetahs. Each is helping the fastest mammal in the world from becoming extinct by serving as a playmate and companion.

Hopefully even with the contempt towards the vulnerable the elites have displayed the last couple years, using our recession as a springboard to dismantle every social program which had nothing to do with the recession, that contempt will be rendered mute if those in charge just drag their feet long enough to show the argument for the lie it is. Contempt for the poor.

Hopefully even with the contempt towards the vulnerable the elites have displayed the last couple years, using our recession as a springboard to dismantle every social program which had nothing to do with the recession, that contempt will be rendered mute if those in charge just drag their feet long enough to show the argument for the lie it is. Contempt for the poor.

Republicans seem to have taken a new route, refusing to pass anything and then blaming Obama for their refusal to work on any sort of agreement. Boehner seems to think referencing nullified bills as the GOP “response” to the sequester gets them off the hook.

Another event for wingnuts to ignore..I think not..they wont ignore another reality based event…they will attempt to tear Obama to shreds and also his foreign policy and once again look like the insane petty children that they are. Conservatism IS a mental disorder!!!

Immigration isn’t a touchy subject just for many Republicans. Southern and moderate Democrats also may be a bit skittish about the idea of granting a path to citizenship for the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants.

A small group of Senate Democrats, because they represent conservative states such as North Carolina and Arkansas, could help derail ambitious plans to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws.

Revolution fantasists like Rivette tend to forget examples from recent history, when LBJ federalized the Alabama National Guard to help the state “perform ordinary police functions.”
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The most dangerous president would be a Vogon Obama. He’d bore you to death and sign all the paperwork (and make sure all the forms were properly initialed in triplicate) to blow up your planet to make room for an interstellar expressway.

I consider Diamond’s popular books to be just that - popularizations of topics that are almost intractable due to their complexity.

At least he tries to paint a bigger picture covering human past and future.

I quite liked ‘The Third Chimpanzee’ but found some of the value judgments he made based on incomplete info in Guns, Germs and Steel a bit annoying. Once you get past the way he presents things, or take it for what it is, a popularization, his books are enlightening.

The Firelands or Sufferers’ Lands tract was located at the western end of the Connecticut Western Reserve in what is now the U.S. state of Ohio. The land was set aside for residents of the Connecticut towns of Danbury, Fairfield, Greenwich, Groton, New Haven, New London, Norwalk, and Ridgefield who lost their homes in 1779 and 1781 due to fires set by British forces during the American Revolutionary War.

Cool off, is my advice. You take downdings way too personally. Try posting a good bit less once you start getting them in numbers and then resuming on a different topic later. It’s when you go right into the teeth of opposition that you really get pounded.

Gee, NY metro has been flirting with drought conditions for the past couple of years. The only thing that’s kept it from having serious water issues has been a spate of hurricanes, nor’easters and blizzards to bring water levels and precipitation levels to anything approaching normal.

Rather than having periodic gentle rainfall or moderate snowfalls, we’re getting fewer moderate events here, but when it does rain, it’s more likely to be a torrential or catastrophic event.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It’s a port of call, home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it’s our last, best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.

But you do get that someone who picks and chooses items on which to write has a take on those items. In his case, he’s pushing a global warming denialist position that has no actual basis in science - not when climatologists - the people who study this for a living - are saying that it is indisputable.

So, who’s disputing this? Folks who aren’t climate scientists, paid shills, and the ignorant or information-poor folks who are swayed by the shills and hacks.

But the AP story doesn’t just leap from “apparent contradiction” to “junk science” the way Hoft does. It explains why the “contradiction” is, in fact, only apparent:

Ten climate scientists say the idea of less snow and more blizzards makes sense: A warmer world is likely to decrease the overall amount of snow falling each year and shrink snow season. But when it is cold enough for a snowstorm to hit, the slightly warmer air is often carrying more moisture, producing potentially historic blizzards.

any science fiction date for earth after 2800 AD should consider whether the next ice age has started, altho since it has been over 10 thousand years since the last one the next one could happen any time

Hoft is a barometer of the lowest common denominator. Willfully misunderstanding a subject creates the base justification for dismissing it. Any potential bit of information that could possible be construed as counterintuitive is therefore accepted as contradiction, therefore, structural fault.

The very existence of complexity or nuance is in and of itself justification for dismissal.

WND is running a new 10 commandments campaign. I’ll quote, but won’t link:

The campaign kicks off this week with 11 major billboards – all in the heart of what some call “sin city,” Las Vegas. Farah is asking for contributions from those who recognize the Ten Commandments represent the glue that holds civilization together to take the campaign nationwide.

“The problem is America is not limited to atheists, agnostics, cults and non-believers,” says Farah. “In fact, the biggest problem America has is with those who call themselves believers but who act no differently than the worldliest individuals on the planet. You can call these people backslidden. You can call them false converts. Or you can call them undiscipled, nominal believers. What they all have in common is they are not in obedience to God. They are not even trying to follow the most basic moral law, as Jesus and the prophets all instructed.”

With that in mind, Farah is planning to erect hundreds of Ten Commandments billboards around the country in a move that is sure to annoy the American Civil Liberties Union and the organized atheists with the help of like-minded and like-spirited partners.

“The goal is two-fold,” Farah says. “I want to prick the consciences of believers and non-believers alike, and I want Americans to see the basis of all our laws as handed down by God at Mount Sinai in hopes they will repent of their sins and turn back to their Creator.”

WND is running a new 10 commandments campaign. I’ll quote, but won’t link:

When WND ran the “where’s the birth certificate” signs I wanted to blow them up. This, not so much. I also love that they are running this in Vegas, a city built on fun. I guess it’s the opposite of preaching to the converted. I only wish that I was making money from this.

Mozart wrote pretty, complex tunes for small orchestra and light opera. Bright kid, but he burned out like a member of The Pretenders and croaked.

It would be interesting to see, if he had lived longer, if he grew a set of stones like Beethoven did, and write masterpieces. He may have just continued to be a pop music writer in his dotage. Pretty, complex, but ultimately empty.

Mozart wrote pretty, complex tunes for small orchestra and light opera. Bright kid, but he burned out like a member of The Pretenders and croaked.

It would be interesting to see, if he had lived longer, if he grew a set of stones like Beethoven did, and write masterpieces. He may have just continued to be a pop music writer in his dotage. Pretty, complex, but ultimately empty.

Read a short story a few years back about a guy who invents a time machine and uses it rescue his favorite composer who had a reputation for drugs, womanizing and was presumed to have died during a plague.

So he brings the guy to the modern day and shows him how people are still listening to his work and how he can keep being a great composer of classical music. The composer starts learning more about the modern world, decides “screw classical music, I’m going to be a rock star” and dies of an overdose inside of a year.

Mozart wrote pretty, complex tunes for small orchestra and light opera. Bright kid, but he burned out like a member of The Pretenders and croaked.

It would be interesting to see, if he had lived longer, if he grew a set of stones like Beethoven did, and write masterpieces. He may have just continued to be a pop music writer in his dotage. Pretty, complex, but ultimately empty.

I reject your thesis that Mozart didn’t write masterpieces. However, I’ve occasionally wondered what Mozart might have produced if he’d had the chance to hear middle-period Beethoven (which he would have done if he’d reached his 50’s).

The world is slowly making the switch over to electric power, and while some mass transit systems have been powered by electricity for a while, it’s usually delivered through overhead cables that connect to the buses and trains at all times. However, Korea is moving away from overhead cables in favor of wireless power to its mass transit vehicles.

…The technology uses inductive charging to wirelessly transmit electricity from the ground to coils underneath the floor of electric vehicles. The ground has embedded power cables that transmit electricity to the pick-up coils. So far during testing, engineers have recorded an 85% transmission efficiency with the cables and coils.

Read a short story a few years back about a guy who invents a time machine and uses it rescue his favorite composer who had a reputation for drugs, womanizing and was presumed to have died during a plague.

So he brings the guy to the modern day and shows him how people are still listening to his work and how he can keep being a great composer of classical music. The composer starts learning more about the modern world, decides “screw classical music, I’m going to be a rock star” and dies of an overdose inside of a year.

I reject your thesis that Mozart didn’t write masterpieces. However, I’ve occasionally wondered what Mozart might have produced if he’d had the chance to hear middle-period Beethoven (which he would have done if he’d reached his 50’s).

my favorite composer fantasy involves bringing my favorite composer js bach back to life in the modern era (maybe swoop in and save him from his last cataract operation that killed him)

i imagine him listening to recordings of all important music since his death and then being asked who was the most important composer/musician of the last hundred years. according to me, he would have to say

I have a problem with that. See, he’s accused of this. Charges have been filed. But he has not been convicted.

What if he’s found innocent?

Let me give you one little piece of the evidence that bothers me. That’s the witness statement, of this man who says he heard this, turned, and saw the slap.

The witness was sitting in row 1. The incident was in row 18. The flight was descending into Atlanta.

Ever been on a plane with a crying baby half the plane away? Every try to hear what anyone next to you, much less half the plane away, was saying?

So I’m torn. If he did it he deserves all the crap that can be delivered. But… did he do it? And should he be punished before all the facts come out?

An actual trial will take months, and in the meantime the bad publicity will still be swirling around him. When you are an ‘At Will’ employee, the bad publicity alone is reason enough for termination; The truth of the allegation is of secondary import.

An actual trial will take months, and in the meantime the bad publicity will still be swirling around him. When you are an ‘At Will’ employee, the bad publicity alone is reason enough for termination; The truth of the allegation is of secondary import.

my favorite composer fantasy involves bringing my favorite composer js bach back to life in the modern era (maybe swoop in and save him from his last cataract operation that killed him)

i imagine him listening to recordings of all important music since his death and then being asked who was the most important composer/musician of the last hundred years. according to me, he would have to say

President Ahmadinejad of Iran has warned that he could scrap this summer’s presidential election, threatening to drag the Islamic Republic into a constitutional crisis as he attempts to retain power.

With months to go until Iranians vote for his successor in June, Mr Ahmadinejad has reignited his bitter power struggle with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader.

In an open letter published on his website at the weekend, Mr Ahmadinejad issued the veiled threat that if his right-hand man, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, is not approved as a presidential candidate, he could declare the election void and retain power himself.

Last week, President Barack Obama approved legislation that will likely rapidly increase the use of drones for surveillance in the United States.

The FAA Modernization Act of 2012, which contains provisions to modernize aviation laws and to immediately integrate unmanned aircraft systems, was signed into law by Obama Thursday.

Meanwhile, the Federal Aviation Administration called on State and local governments as well as universities to compete to be the location of one of six unmanned aircraft test sites the agency will operate as mandated by the 2012 FAA Reauthorization Act. The agency says it will use the sites to better understand the dangers and benefits of domestic drones before they are fully introduced to the National Airspace System by 2015.

“We expect to learn how unmanned aircraft systems operate in different environments and how they will impact air traffic operations,” FAA Chief Michael Huerta said in a statement. “The test sites will inform the agency as we develop standards for certifying unmanned aircraft and determine necessary air traffic requirements.”

It’s not a problem, IMO: An employee who has had a scandal like that attach itself to him is a liability to his employer. As such, it is appropriate for the employer to fire him.

Regardless of truth. OK.

You have just described the core reason I object to “at will” states. The laws are passed to “protect the worker” from unions. Unions which, in this case, would tell the business to shove it. In other words they’re not to protect the worker, they’re to protect the company.

Because if this man turns out to be innocent, it doesn’t matter. He’s 60. As you said it’ll be a long time before the trial is finished. After a year he’s pretty much unemployable. Because he was fired he loses a bunch of benefits - and he can’t sue because it’s “right to work”.

He is screwed.

If he’s guilty that’s OK. But if he’s innocent… I have this apparently naive belief that one of the cornerstones of this nation is that our system tries to protect the innocent, to prevent harm to the extent possible to those falsely accused. Apparently that nation does not exist. Instead if you hamper that bottom line you just need to go away. Don’t let your corpse block the driveway, please, the janitor was outsourced last week.

I don’t think it’s apower play as much as an attempt at self preservation. Ahmedinijad’s close associates have been being arrested over the past couple years. A very close ally of his even defected while in New York for the UN speech because he was afraid of being arrested on his return to Iran. Like many authoritarian countries, they have no mercy for those who leave power. Unless Ahmedinijad has a close ally replace him then he risks being arrested and tried for something after he leaves office.

Israel has a special place in my heart, but this crap/bullshit which states Obama is some sort of closet anti-semite is such a load of crap. There was the campaign meme that the real, evil Obama would be unleashed in his second term… hating on Israel with his preacher. The irony here is the actual Obama is someone who obviously feels quite close to Jewish people as his own friendships and associations prove.

On Iran, he’s worked hand in glove with Israel as detailed by Netanyahu… who admits this despite political differences.

Tucker Carlson, the founder of The Daily Caller, attacked Wicca on Sunday, mocking the minority religion for allegedly having too many holidays.

Carlson appeared on the Fox News show Fox & Friends Sunday to discuss the University of Missouri’s “Holiday and Recommended Accommodations” guide, which lists eight Wiccan holidays.

“The bad side of Wiccanism is it’s obviously a form of witchcraft,” he said. “But the upside is you get a ton of holidays. Twenty percent of all school holidays, as described by the University of Missouri, are Wiccan holidays. Twenty percent of all.”

Though the Fox & Friends Sunday hosts suggested Wiccans received special treatment, the guide does not recommend any accommodations for Wiccan holidays, unlike many of the other religious holidays listed.

Watching The Big Lebowski again. I love this movie. Jeff Bridges has one of my favorite lines ever: “Walter, I love you, but sooner or later, you’re going to have to face the fact you’re a goddamn moron.”

Watching The Big Lebowski again. I love this movie. Jeff Bridges has one of my favorite lines ever: “Walter, I love you, but sooner or later, you’re going to have to face the fact you’re a goddamn moron.”

You have just described the core reason I object to “at will” states. The laws are passed to “protect the worker” from unions. Unions which, in this case, would tell the business to shove it. In other words they’re not to protect the worker, they’re to protect the company.

Because if this man turns out to be innocent, it doesn’t matter. He’s 60. As you said it’ll be a long time before the trial is finished. After a year he’s pretty much unemployable. Because he was fired he loses a bunch of benefits - and he can’t sue because it’s “right to work”.

He is screwed.

If he’s guilty that’s OK. But if he’s innocent… I have this apparently naive belief that one of the cornerstones of this nation is that our system tries to protect the innocent, to prevent harm to the extent possible to those falsely accused. Apparently that nation does not exist. Instead if you hamper that bottom line you just need to go away. Don’t let your corpse block the driveway, please, the janitor was outsourced last week.

He can sue and claim wrongful termination, but the suit won’t likely proceed till the criminal case is resolved.

But while I take your point, the best I could support in his case is suspension and given the evidence likely without pay. The fact is that he carries a stench and his working would be detrimental to his employer, due to PR damage. Forcing the the company to endure that damage would be wrong, as the corporation does have rights to protect its own image and values.

12 rows. Not 8. see the affidavit’s item 7 here. Yes, I was incorrect in saying 1 and 18. The actual rows are 16 and 28.

And that is beside the point. The point is the man is not yet convicted.

Apparently I’m not making myself clear enough.

Even if the witness had been in the adjacent seat, firing this man for the allegation is wrong. Destroying his life over just the accusation is wrong.

Because if it’s right then it is right to use innuendo and false accusation to destroy someone.

If it’s right, then Breitbart’s video-editors are right. James O’Keefe is right.

And I think that’s wrong.

Like I said before, the company may not be surprised by this accusation at all. He may have a history of doing really jackass things, but maybe not enough that they felt they could fire him for it. This could have been just what they were waiting for.

Meh...I’ve never heard of the company before so I’m not sure how much of it was worried about PR.

There are millions of companies non of us have ever heard of. Doesn’t matter. They have customers, or clients, or companies that they interact with that HAVE heard of them. They would be toxic if they didn’t do something to rid themselves of an alleged racist

He can sue and claim wrongful termination, but the suit won’t likely proceed till the criminal case is resolved.

But while I take your point, the best I could support in his case is suspension and given the evidence likely without pay. The fact is that he carries a stench and his working would be detrimental to his employer, due to PR damage. Forcing the the company to endure that damage would be wrong, as the corporation does have rights to protect its own image and values.

Since Oklahoma is a right-to-work state and he is (guessing by title) an exempt employee, no he can’t sue for wrongful termination. He is screwed.

I hope he’s guilty. Because otherwise an innocent man was destroyed. But I fear for all the innocent men and women who are destroyed this way - because they got on the wrong side of someone who raised a stink.

Like I said before, the company may not be surprised by this accusation at all. He may have a history of doing really jackass things, but maybe not enough that they felt they could fire him for it. This could have been just what they were waiting for.

Since Oklahoma is a right-to-work state and he is (guessing by title) an exempt employee, no he can’t sue for wrongful termination. He is screwed.

I hope he’s guilty. Because otherwise an innocent man was destroyed. But I fear for all the innocent men and women who are destroyed this way - because they got on the wrong side of someone who raised a stink.

What makes you think that the mother and the witness made this up about this man?

“Are you serious? Really?” Moore said when asked whether he gave the quotes in question to that outlet. “I did tell them that I once shot a unicorn in Reno (or was it Elko?) just to watch it die. And then I ate it. After I took it to Uranus. Flew coach with Kim Kardashian. Who has carried three of my babies. But we dropped two of them off on Jupiter because the schools are better.”

An Iranian news report quoted Moore saying that “I am now waiting for an opportunity to travel to Iran. Even if they do not invite me this time I will go anyway.”

Moore allegedly told Mehrnameh magazine that he had previously planned to visit Iran, but “the right-wing media in the US began to take a position and published some very critical and hateful articles, they even published faked news about me. So I thought I should postpone visiting Iran to another time

Since Oklahoma is a right-to-work state and he is (guessing by title) an exempt employee, no he can’t sue for wrongful termination. He is screwed.

I hope he’s guilty. Because otherwise an innocent man was destroyed. But I fear for all the innocent men and women who are destroyed this way - because they got on the wrong side of someone who raised a stink.

Based on my own experiences and those of my best friend, one of the big concerns for a company is also liability, and some of their actions are dictated by their liability insurance provider. The firm needs to protect itself from risk, and if they allowed Handley to keep working pending the outcome of a trial and were in that interim sued by someone claiming Handley had racially discriminated against him/her, then they’d face the allegation that they had failed to act to stop someone they knew was a problem, which could amount to hundreds of thousands in additional damages.

What makes you think that the mother and the witness made this up about this man?

Read the whole thing I said. I don’t know either way. I have questions that need answered in a trial.

The biggest? How did this man get out of his seat and halfway down the aisle during final descent?

The second biggest? Since they got seats wrong what else did they get wrong? (Flight 721 is an airbus 320. It has 26 rows of seats.)

Why don’t we have an affidavit for the incident, at least for the language, from anyone in the seat to the side or in front of her?

Want a (made up just to answer your question) idea? Try this.

The accused is “genteel racist” - made it plain by implication and posture. And he did tell her to shut that damn baby up (but without the racist language). The woman, pissed, starts yelling “why’d you hit my baby?”. And the witness happens to be black (don’t know, making it for this line), and automatically supports the woman because she’s also black.

And because she was yelling and the man was a southerner and the standing man supported it, a lot of other passengers expressed sympathy.

You want my guess, he’s guilty. I think he is.

But it does not change my core statement. He should not be punished, have his life destroyed, on the accusation.

Chivington is Colorado’s most famous Civil War fighter (and Native American killer).

I know. He was a master at ambushes and the ‘indirect approach’, which was fine when he was fighting Gen. Sibley’s Texans but Chivington went on to use his idea of attacking an enemy’s base of supply to murder Indians at Sand Creek. He was a butcher of women and children and IMO second on the list of the Civil War’s monsters, exceeded only by Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Read the whole thing I said. I don’t know either way. I have questions that need answered in a trial.

The biggest? How did this man get out of his seat and halfway down the aisle during final descent?

The second biggest? Since they got seats wrong what else did they get wrong? (Flight 721 is an airbus 320. It has 26 rows of seats.)

Why don’t we have an affidavit for the incident, at least for the language, from anyone in the seat to the side or in front of her?

Want a (made up just to answer your question) idea? Try this.

The accused is “genteel racist” - made it plain by implication and posture. And he did tell her to shut that damn baby up (but without the racist language). The woman, pissed, starts yelling “why’d you hit my baby?”. And the witness happens to be black (don’t know, making it for this line), and automatically supports the woman because she’s also black.

And because she was yelling and the man was a southerner and the standing man supported it, a lot of other passengers expressed sympathy.

You want my guess, he’s guilty. I think he is.

But it does not change my core statement. He should not be punished, have his life destroyed, on the accusation.

Where are you getting that the flight was an Airbus 320? Sometimes it is and sometimes it is an MD90/Q which has 39 rows.

If you heard some man getting loud with a woman and crying baby, some men wouldn’t just sit there, regardless if the plane is getting ready to land or not.

The mother is white. The mother also apparently spent a fair bit of time in the back of the plane to get away from the drunk asshole.

What I said was they should allow evidence obtained with a drone after the drone was used by obtaining a court order/warrant rather than a blanket ban.

And I said, what is the difference between a video from a drone, sent purposely or by chance, and a camera on a wall recording continuously? The latter I believe is admissible without question. Or, let’s be even more ridiculous; what is the difference between that and what a person, perhaps a police officer, saw without a warrant (repeatability ignored)?

If I remember correctly, you’re a White Sox fan, right? How ya think the South Siders are going to play out this season? I think it’ll probably be another “hover around .500” season again. My Disastros made the move to the AL East where they will be lucky to win 55 games.

If I remember correctly, you’re a White Sox fan, right? How ya think the South Siders are going to play out this season? I think it’ll probably be another “hover around .500” season again. My Disastros made the move to the AL East where they will be lucky to win 55 games.

eh,, I was (kinda) politely told to go back to my seat as the flight attendants said they would handle it. But the odd thing was is that I noticed it and got there BEFORE they went to “handle it” To this day I only think they came over because I did

Aftermath, lets just say that the “gentleman” in question and I conversed in the concourse after getting off the plane

Some blog post I just passed by. Checked and they were right. Pretty pathetic if you ask me. They can have their drone medal but seriously? Above the Bronze Star? Then they wonder why they get mad at them.

I know *exactly* what you mean. Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I’m talking about?

Yes, because nothing says “depopulation” like the Gates Foundation efforts to vaccinate people in the third world who’d otherwise die of…oh screw it, this derp-tweeter is probably an anti-vaxxer anyway.

These fucktards have fantasies of blowing away “home invaders.” Don’t knock on their door to borrow a cup of sugar or deliver a package! They sleep with their GUNZ. Sux to be the UPS man on their block.

Yes, because nothing says “depopulation” like the Gates Foundation efforts to vaccinate people in the third world who’d otherwise die of…oh screw it, this derp-tweeter is probably an anti-vaxxer anyway.

Exactly. “Depopulation” is a extreme wingnut/moonbat meme. It can be found on true nutcase sites such those of Alex Jones and Mike Adams.

Actually Gus, the other new award you’ll agree with. From the article I posted above:

Meanwhile there is the other new award. Over the last seven years all the U.S. military services developed new decorations to recognize non-combat troops who have experienced combat on the ground. This is a result of the large number of non-combat troops who have been in combat because of the extensive attacks on convoys and American bases in Afghanistan and, especially, Iraq. Such attacks are not unique, as there was quite a lot of action against base camps, and supply convoys, during the Vietnam War and earlier conflicts. During World War II combat support troops often were told to grab their rifles and man the fighting line. This was particularly common in the Pacific. But in Iraq there have been weeks where the majority of casualties were among combat support troops. This was unheard of in past wars. So in recognition of that, there are now “Combat Badges” available for non-combat troops in the army, marines, and navy. The U.S. Air Force was the last to agree to offer such an award. Airmen have seen a lot of action defending convoys and bases in Iraq, and even the pilots (normally the only “combat” troops in the air force) are in favor of a badge to recognize the air force role in ground combat. Some pilots would be eligible for this badge. Pilots serve on the ground as air controllers with army combat units. The air controllers communicate with warplanes above and direct attack by aircraft. Earlier the air force thought it had solved the combat badge “problem” by earlier approving a gold border for the Expeditionary Service Ribbon. This ribbon is awarded to airmen who deploy overseas on a combat mission. The gold border would signify that the wearer had spent at least 45 consecutive days “supporting combat operations in a designated combat zone.” But the airmen, and air controllers, were still grumbling. So the air force brass agreed to offer a combat badge similar to the one awarded by the other services.

…The service secretaries will make the final determination for awarding the Distinguished Warfare Medal.

The order of precedence came as a surprise to Doug Sterner, a military medals expert and the curator of the Military Times Hall of Valor, the largest database of military medal recipients.

“It’s got me puzzled,” Sterner said Wednesday. “I understand the need to recognize the guys at the console who are doing some pretty important things. But to see it ranking above the Bronze Star (with) V?”

I believe there is at least one ex Presidential candidate writing for this loon, along with Ted Nugent and a few other well known names that I have forgotten.

“The problem is America is not limited to atheists, agnostics, cults and non-believers,” says Farah. “In fact, the biggest problem America has is with those who call themselves believers but who act no differently than the worldliest individuals on the planet. You can call these people backslidden. You can call them false converts. Or you can call them undiscipled, nominal believers. What they all have in common is they are not in obedience to God. They are not even trying to follow the most basic moral law, as Jesus and the prophets all instructed.”

With that in mind, Farah is planning to erect hundreds of Ten Commandments billboards around the country in a move that is sure to annoy the American Civil Liberties Union and the organized atheists with the help of like-minded and like-spirited partners.

“The goal is two-fold,” Farah says. “I want to prick the consciences of believers and non-believers alike, and I want Americans to see the basis of all our laws as handed down by God at Mount Sinai in hopes they will repent of their sins and turn back to their Creator.”

[Link: www.seacoastonline.com…]
Two women got into a fight over the sale of beauty products during a game of bingo for seniors at Feaster Apartments on Friday, police said.

According to the public police log, Portsmouth officers responded to the community room at the senior living apartment building on Court Street at 2:06 p.m. after taking a report of “some pushing and shoving” due to a disagreement over the sale of Avon products.

eh,, I was (kinda) politely told to go back to my seat as the flight attendants said they would handle it. But the odd thing was is that I noticed it and got there BEFORE they went to “handle it” To this day I only think they came over because I did

Aftermath, lets just say that the “gentleman” in question and I conversed in the concourse after getting off the plane

In a way Farah is right. No, not about erecting billboards with the 10 Commandments on them, but if religious people want to convince the rest of the world that they are onto something, they’d better start living their faith, starting with the log in their own eye before moving on to keeping their neighbor from having a good time.
His problem is that the faithful aren’t going to suddenly quit coveting their neighbor’s ass and whatnot.

No offense, but that’s equally ridiculous. You can’t “practice” shooting a real firearm by playing first person shooters any more than by clicking the icons on your desktop.

He did plenty of real-life target practice as well, courtesy of his mother (to whom all his massacre guns were registered). At any rate, I based my comment on this from the CBS report:

They’ve also recovered what they called a “trove” of video games from the basement of Lanza’s home. Sources say Lanza spent countless hours there alone, in a private gaming room with the windows blacked out, honing his computer shooting skills.

Lanza also made multiple visits to nearby gun ranges with his mother, Nancy Lanza, where they practiced together with actual weapons. Three guns, all registered to Nancy Lanza, were used in the Sandy Hook massacre. Lanza used a fourth weapon to kill his mother before his attack on the school.

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